You know the criticism about closing Gitmo and how it’ll just send terrorists back out to kill other Americans? And how that’s a reason for keeping it open, to keep the terrorists locked up? Turns out the White House agrees…that the terrorists leave Gitmo just to kill Americans again. They just don’t think it’s a big deal.

Paul Lewis — a senior Obama administration official — testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay have killed Americans.

“What I can tell you is unfortunately there have been Americans that have died because of detainees,” Lewis explained. “When anybody dies it is a tragedy. We don’t want anybody to die because we transfer detainees.”

Lewis further stated that it is “the best judgment and the considered judgment of this administration and the previous administration that the risks of keeping Gitmo open” far outweigh the positives of shutting it down.

I see. So, while you admit that when you release the prisoners they just go back to the battlefield and KILL OTHER AMERICANS, that’s totes kewl because keeping Gitmo open would be worse?